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A former nursing student whom Columbia Basin College expelled after learning that he had been hospitalized for homicidal thoughts about three professors can sue the institution and several of its officials, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that the former student, known as R.W., was not barred by the Eleventh Amendment’s shield of immunity from suing Columbia Basin for terminating him from the program and failing him in his courses.
The former student was one term away from finishing the academic program at the community college in Washington State when a social worker, to whom he had reported that he had visions of killing his instructors, told police officers, who then informed college officials.
